A guide to whale watching season in Los Cabos, plus swimming with orcas and whale sharks

A guide to whale watching season in Los Cabos, plus swimming with orcas and whale sharks

What a difference a century makes. In the 19th century, the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur (BCS) was a hunting ground for whalers. Indeed, some of the most notable early immigrants to what is now Los Cabos were deserters from whaling ships who married into local families. As historian Pablo L. Martinez pointed out in his “Guia Familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900”:  “In the southern tip (of the Baja California peninsula), most of the imm…